Is Britain’s war on photography coming to an end? After the Independent newspaper got senior officials to admit that anti-terror legislation was being “widely abused…to question and search innocent photographers,” the Association of Chief Police Officers has sent out a strongly worded memo to all officers ordering them to cease the practice. The harrassment of photographers by police officers is said to have senior officers “exasperated, depressed and embarrassed,” and they characterize officers’ belief that anti-terror laws prohibit photography as an “internal urban myth.” Chief Constable Andy Trotter, chairman of Acpo’s media advisory group, took the decision to send the warning after growing criticism of the police’s treatment of photographers. Writing in today’s Independent, he says: “Everyone… has a right to take photographs and film in public places. Taking photographs… is not normally cause for suspicion and there are no powers prohibiting the taking of photographs, fi…[...]

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Photographers win British war on photography?